It’s always good if you can ‘seed’ your system from an existing system or from someone who has an aquarium or pond. Aquarium filters will be filled with the beneficial bacteria you want growing in your aquaponics system, so will pond filters or even

The answer to that question is highly determined on how quickly your system handles that ammonia. So, rather than flush that water down the drain, aquaponics takes advantage of the ammonia. It’s called the nitrogen cycle & it takes place right here.

We have been running some trials of these three different methods here at Backyard Aquaponics and you can follow the results on our forum if you’d like to compare the different systems. At the time of writing this our trials have been running for over 1